Credits

Troublesome Creek
A film by Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher

Produced, written and directed by: Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher
Cinematographer: Steven Ascher
Editor: Jeanne Jordan
Music: Sheldon Mirowitz
Sound editor: Victoria Garvin Davis
Mixer: Rick Dior, Sync Sound
Sales representative: Louise Rosen
Legal: Sandra Forman, John Sloss
Agent: Phyllis Kaufman, Writers and Artists
Publicity: Paola Freccero, Shannon Treusch, Clein+White
Theatrical distributor: Artistic License Films, Sande Zeig

FUNDING:
Iowa Humanities Board, Missouri Humanities Council, Ohio Humanities Council, Illinois Humanities Council, Indiana Humanities Council, Kansas HumanitiesCouncil, Minnesota Humanities Commission, Nebraska Humanities Council, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, Charles Engelhard Foundation, Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, BBC "Fine Cut" and WGBH "The American Experience".

APPEARING IN THE FILM:

RUSSEL JORDAN. Career in farming began behind a walking plow at age 10. Can remember everyone he's ever met and every joke he's ever heard. Was once runner-up in Abraham Lincoln look-alike contest.

MARY JANE JORDAN. Russ's wife. Iowa state 4H president who taught school then raised six children. Collects everything under the sun.

JON JORDAN. Their youngest son. Works with Russ at the start of the film. Lived in L.A. for a few years, working as an actor and fireman, where he learned to rescue building-jumpers.

JIM JORDAN. Their oldest son. Lives on a rented farm with his family at the start of the film. Wife Gini teaches elementary school. A newspaper once described them as "downwardly mobile."

PAM JORDAN. Their oldest daughter. Formerly farmed with her husband, Jiggs (Gary).

JUDY JORDAN. Their second daughter. Formerly farmed with her husband, Joe.

JANET JORDAN. Their third daughter. Kindergarten teacher.

TIM WOLF. Banker who takes over the family's account during the time of the film.

Auctioneers:
DEAN EILTS
ALAN SMALLEY
BOB BLANKENSHIP
Dean once exhorted a bunch of farmers to bid with "follow me boys, you'll all be wearing diamonds."

JEANNE JORDAN. Filmmaker. Russ and Mary Jane's youngest daughter. Grew up on the farm but is now the only one in the family not living in Iowa.

STEVE ASCHER. Filmmaker. Jeannie's husband. Definitely did not grow up on a farm (father was a psychiatrist in New York City).